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	News - Blizzard cools Northern outpost // PC /// Eurogamer
		World of Warcraft developer Blizzard has consolidated its operations by closing its Blizzard North office and offering relocation packages to those staffers working on "an unannounced project" at the Bay Area subsidiary.
		Blizzard president Mike Mohraime said the move would "improve our efficiency as a company" by bringing its PC development teams into closer contact at its Irvine, California-based headquarters.
		It's not known how many employees were affected by the decision, but Blizzard North had endured a number of high profile departures, with the likes of David Brevik, Erich and Max Schaefer, Bill Roper and brothers Stefan and Mike Scandizzo exiting the company in recent years to set-up their own studios.
	www.eurogamer.net /article.php?article_id=60334 (176 words)

	Blizzard Entertainment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blizzard also has a reputation for taking fierce legal action against anyone who reverse engineers their software, copies their game concepts, or publishes third-party server software that is compatible with their games.
		Blizzard Entertainment was founded in February, 1991 as Silicon and Synapse by Mike Morhaime, Allen Adham and Frank Pearce.
		Blizzard has changed hands several times since then: Davidson was acquired by a timeshare company called CUC International in 1996; CUC then merged with a hotel, real-estate, and car-rental franchiser called HFS Corporation to form Cendant Software, in 1997.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blizzard_Entertainment (1218 words)

	Blizzard North - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Blizzard North was the Northern-California division of Blizzard Entertainment, known for the Diablo series.
		Geoff Fraizer of Blizzard Entertainment has since said the canceled game was a "Blizzard North kind of game", which has made some draw the conclusion that a "Diablo 3" has been canceled.
		On August 1, 2005, Blizzard Entertainment announced the shutting down of Blizzard North, saying that it will move its remaining employees to its head offices to resume work on an “unannounced project" which most believe is the third installment in the Diablo series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Blizzard_North (326 words)

	Climate of North Dakota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blizzards in the Great Plains and the North Central states are generally caused by deep or deepening low pressure systems (3).
		Blizzards originating from Alberta lows probably pose more of a threat to loss of life because blizzard conditions frequently develop very rapidly and are accompanied by sub-zero temperatures.
		Blizzards are dangerous storms, possibly second only to tornadoes and hurricanes, and they demand the respect of all who must deal with them.
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/climate/blizzard.htm (794 words)

	Diabloii.net Guest Articles
		It wouldn't be long before these Blizzard T-shirts became a sort of uniform for me, and by the time I left Blizzard 6 years later, I had enough T-shirts to go into to work for a month and never wear the same T-shirt twice.
		Blizzard North's office building was situated next to a boat marina.
		With a hopeful internal release date set at December of 1999, and a hopeful beta date set for November of 1999, most of the Blizzard North Diablo II team was pulling double-time, working weekends and occasionally sleeping under their desks in order to finish the game in time.
	www.diabloii.net /columnists/a-memories-blizzard.shtml (1668 words)

	Encyclopedia: Blizzard North (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is one of the larger suburbs on the San Francisco Peninsula, located between Burlingame to the north, Foster City to the East, and Belmont to the south.
		Flagship Studios is a computer game company currently mostly known for their high ratio of former employees of Blizzard Entertainment, one of the most successful game companies in the world.
		Blizzard Entertainment Diablo Diablo is a point and click action computer role-playing game released by Blizzard Entertainment and developed by Blizzard North, released in late 1996.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Blizzard-North (778 words)

	Blizzard North -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blizzard North is a division of (additional info and facts about Blizzard Entertainment) Blizzard Entertainment.
		The studio is based in (A town in California south of San Francisco) San Mateo (near (additional info and facts about San Fransisco) San Fransisco), with Blizzard proper being based in (additional info and facts about Irvine) Irvine (in southern California).
		The resignations were partly due to a conflict with Blizzard Entertainment's owner (additional info and facts about Vivendi Universal) Vivendi Universal, and partly due to employees wishing to start something new.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/b/bl/blizzard_north.htm (378 words)

	RPGamer - News Bulletin - Blizzard North Now Hiring
		A recent update on developer Blizzard's official website announced that the company is now searching for a new lead game designer to manage the same team that constructed Diablo and Diablo II for the PC.
		Aside from the obvious fact that Blizzard is hiring for its Diablo team, several peices of information surrounding this announcement have lead to speculation that Diablo III might be on the horizon.
		This theory has arisen namely from Blizzard's notification that patch 1.10 will be the final content update patch, but the four-year timespan since the last Diablo II expansion pack was released is also a contributing factor to this rumor.
	www.rpgamer.com /news/Q1-2005/021005a.html (227 words)

	GameSpy.com - Interview
		Recently, gamers were startled by the news that Bill Roper, Blizzard North's vice president and longtime public "voice" of the company, was departing along with three other co-founders.
		Blizzard, as Vivendi Universal Games' crown jewel, is considered by many analysts to provide the bulk of the division's value and many fear that the departure of key personnel may in fact hurt sales prospects.
		While I can only really speak for Blizzard North, the uncertainly surrounding our future in regards to who was going to own us understandably caused a lot of speculation and uncertainty.
	archive.gamespy.com /interviews/july03/billroper (816 words)

	Blizzard North Shuts Down, Transfers Team - News at Gaming Horizon
		Blizzard Entertainment today announced that it has shutdown its Northern California office to centralize its PC development teams at the studio's Irvine headquarters.
		Blizzard does not believe that these changes will cause significant delays on any of its projects in development.
		Blizzard has announced that the Diablo 2 1.11 patch is now available to the...
	news.gaminghorizon.com /media2/1122950040.1809.html (238 words)

	Blizzard Entertainment - Company Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Blizzard research and development group is comprised of more than 150 designers, producers, programmers, artists, and sound engineers.
		Each member of the Blizzard staff is a true game enthusiast, which provides the company invaluable insight to creating products for the gaming industry.
		Blizzard Entertainment is a division of Vivendi Universal Games, an operating unit of Vivendi Universal.
	www.blizzard.co.uk /inblizz/profile.shtml (852 words)

	Blizzard North Cancels one of their two unannounced projects - WarBoards.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Asked to comment on the departures, Blizzard president and co-founder Mike Morhaime said: "We are unable to speculate on former employees' motivations for leaving.
		According to industry observers, the departure of 25-30 Blizzard staffers in the past 10 months has prompted the San Mateo, Calif.-based Blizzard North development studio to merge its two teams into one and to cancel one of its two unannounced projects.
		Meanwhile, both Blizzard offspring are working on their own game projects and both are incredibly reluctant to discuss them.
	www.warboards.org /showthread.php?t=170 (1393 words)

	Evil Avatar - Blizzard North Shuts Down
		The "problem" with Blizzard is that for some reason they think that a general lack of communication is a good idea.
		On the other hand, I think the reason for this is quite similar to Disney in the 20th century: all the animators and cartoonists were kept hidden, and the public wouldn't have a clue when they left, because things would seem basically the same.
		I bet a lot of people aren't even aware of the fact that Blizzard itself actually has nothing to do with the running of the game, it just develops it and then sells it to other companies, whether those companies are in the US, EU or China.
	www.evilavatar.com /forums/showthread.php?t=4194 (658 words)

	Diablo II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was developed by Blizzard North, and designed by Stieg Hedlund.
		To quell the rumor, Blizzard included a cheat (that automatically won the game) in Starcraft that read "There is no cow level" (implying no secret cow levels in Diablo).
		However, Blizzard has now programmed the game to only give experience to characters near to the are where monsters are killed, and the Mlvl(monster level) and Clvl(character level) must now be closer together or a very minimal amount of experience is awarded per kill.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diablo_II (4408 words)

	VE3D Boards - Blizzard North Boss Defects
		Rick Seis wasn't too pleased with the shutdown of Blizzard's North Studio which was rumored to be working on Diablo 3, as a result he has left the company to work at Castaway, a haven of ex-Blizzard developers rumored to be working on a next-gen RPG:
		Castaway Entertainment is proud to announce that former Blizzard North studio lead Rick Seis has accepted the position of Technical Director and lead programmer for their current unannounced project.
		Blizzard have done this to themselves, they had 3 major franchises with a proven track record (Starcraft, Warcraft and Diablo) yet they have scaled back operations and for the last few years now completly failed to give Blizzard North the support it needed to develop Diablo 3 or any other titles.
	ve3dboards.ign.com /message.asp?topic=21462816 (1084 words)

	DiabloII.net's Blizzard North Visit -- A to Z Report -- Page Eight
		Blizzard North is aware that most people are running their computers in 800x600 or larger, and it is likely that future products from Blizzard will probably go up to that size, or larger.
		Blizzard likes their games to have reasonable processor requirements, not require 3D cards, and not require enormous hard drive space.
		Blizzard Entertainment all other images are copyright 1997 - 2000 E Davis.
	diabloii.net /features/visit/overview_page08.shtml (2662 words)

	No More Blizzard North? - Cyber Tech Help Support Forums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Gamespot spoke with former Blizzard North vice-president Bill Roper about the sudden departure of the studio's management and these former Blizzard employees' new plans.
		Blizzard Entertainment revealed that the Blizzard North co-founders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer, and David Brevik, plus Blizzard vice president Bill Roper, have left the studio responsible for the Diablo series, which has sold more than 10 million units worldwide.
		The four held the key management positions at Blizzard North, with Brevik as president and the others holding vice-president titles.
	www.cybertechhelp.com /forums/showthread.php?t=19568 (196 words)

	Gaming defections could hamper Vivendi gaming unit sale. - Jul. 1, 2003 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The Blizzard North unit was responsible for creating the 'Diablo' franchise, one of the most successful games in the industry's history.
		Blizzard North co-founders Erich Schaefer, Max Schaefer and David Brevik, along with vice president Bill Roper resigned abruptly on Monday.
		One of the most popular was the Blizzard North co-founders and Roper had learned of the gaming unit's likely buyer and quit, feeling their creativity might be harnessed.
	money.cnn.com /2003/07/01/commentary/game_over/column_gaming (867 words)

	World of Warcraft - Warcraft Central - Blizzard North :: What are they doing? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blizzard North has made the Diablo series games: Diablo I, Diablo II, Diablo II: Lord of Destruction.
		Magicians need a source that grant them their powers.I suggest that in the Warcraft Universe, this be a sentient entity.Who gets angry if its gifts are trivialized.Every time you summon food/drink, you have a 5% chance that your mage blows up, killing you, everyone if your group, and deleting all your items and gold.
		Possibly, but it wouldn't make sense for Blizzard North to be working on that when all the resources that did the first Starcraft are in Blizzard South.
	www.warcraftcentral.com /forum/showthread.php?t=4939 (411 words)

	Blizzard North Visit
		The Blizzard North offices are located in San Mateo, California, about 30 minutes south of the heart of San Francisco.
		Blizzard North leases the entire bottom floor of the office building, and they have recently expanded the offices to include much more space on that floor.
		Blizzard North programmer Peter Hu was sort of our guardian angel during the beta test.
	www.diabloii.net /features/visit/blizzard_north_tour.htm (2285 words)

	DiabloII.net's Blizzard North Visit -- A to Z Report -- Page Four
		Blizzard didn't disclose them all to us, but we got the impression that as you added in more money, more features would come into play, and the look and size of the Guild Hall would change.
		Seeing ghosts on Battle.net at Blizzard North was not uncommon, since if the server crashed, lots of characters in games would die each time.
		The Blizzard North guys are quite heartless about Hardcore death, while we were playing often someone would come running into the room with news that "So-and-so just lost his Clvl 21 Hardcore Paladin!" and all the other Blizzard North guys would laugh and clap.
	diabloii.net /features/visit/overview_page04.shtml (2150 words)

	Blizzard Entertainment - Company Profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blizzard's action-role-playing game (RPG) Diablo, which shipped to stores in the last week of December 1996, debuted at #1 in the United States and was widely credited as having helped to revitalize the RPG genre.
		StarCraft, which Blizzard released in March 1998, was the company's third #1 seller and was listed as the bestselling game of 1998 by PC Data.
		This is especially the case in South Korea, where the game's mass popularity played a major role in the birth of the professional-gaming and game-broadcasting phenomena, as well as serving as one of the key drivers behind the growth of the PC-game-room business.
	www.blizzard.com /inblizz/profile.shtml (781 words)

	Blizzard Entertainment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Blizzard is looking for a seasoned Senior Programmer to work on core technology that will be leveraged across all Blizzard games.
		Between the entertaining and informative developer panels, the chance to play StarCraft II and the newly announced Wrath of the Lich King expansion, the fast-paced tournament gaming, the imaginative live contest entrants, and the closing-night performances, BlizzCon 2007 proved to be an all-around good time for any Blizzard-gaming enthusiast.
		Blizzard's president Mike Morhaime was among those who officially kicked things off yesterday for those in attendance in a live opening ceremony.
	www.blizzard.com (672 words)

	The Escapist : Exodus
		Blizzard Entertainment may not have much in common with a poor man out of Mississippi, but both attained the stature of legend, and both may have lost a little piece of their souls.
		Blizzard made games so incredibly popular (World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Diablo), their success transformed the company culture and managed to burn out the creative team that made them a household name.
		"Blizzard was very collaborative; I could go directly to the programmer or whoever I'd need help from to get something implemented, and talk about the best approaches," and he himself got immersed into this culture of openness.
	www.escapistmagazine.com /issue/48/11 (826 words)

	Bill Roper and Founders of Blizzard North Resign
		All four of these people worked at Blizzard North which has nothing to do at all with Starcraft.
		Blizzard North is working on 2 projects, both of which are unannounced.
		My comments were in reference to some of the other details revealed in the full article: that Universal Vivendi, the parent company of all Blizzard companies, is looking for a way to dump their whole entertainment unit - including Blizzard and its subsidiaries.
	www.teamliquid.net /forum/viewmessage-5253.html (877 words)

	Evil Avatar Forums - Blizzard North Shuts Down
		It said "those from Blizzard North who were offered relocation packages will continue work on an unannounced project." Those that were offered relocation packages, which implies not all people got them.
		Blizzard was bought out by Vivendi EONS ago -- 1999 or 2000, I believe.
		It's far more likely the case that since the original founders of Blizzard North left some time ago, the guys in Irvine want to bring that development group closer to home so they can keep a better eye on it.
	www.evilavatar.com /forums/printthread.php?s=aec864ad25a6f92709b436aba0327326&t=4194&page=2&pp=10 (933 words)

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